The first kerbside collection under the new system — which introduced a food scraps and garden waste green-lidded bin and replaced rubbish bags with red-lidded bins — officially starts on Monday.
The new service did not provide an alternative to black rubbish bags for Central Dunedin residents, leaving them with limited options for collection.
Dunedin City Council infrastructure services committee chairman Cr Jim O’Malley said the council would need to develop a method for the centre of town that would be workable.
Buildings with many apartments would mean a similarly large number of bins.
The council would assess other councils’ methods of dealing with the issue.
He said the council was having a similar problem with rural properties in areas like Waikouaiti where population densities were low.
Central Dunedin would not pay the additional rates for the red bin service.
He said the new system would ensure hundreds of tonnes of food and garden waste was diverted from the landfill each week.
A View St resident, who asked not to be named, said he felt ignored by the council over the new collection system.
"The original excuse was it was too difficult for the trucks but it doesn’t seem to bother the private ones."
